Steve's Seaside Life Blog

Enterprise Web 2.0 and BPM

Earlier today I posted an article on Microsoft and Web 2.0 in the enterprise.  The focus of this post was the way in which Microsoft enables end-users and process/data owners at the edge of the business to take advantage of Web 2.0 concepts.  However there is another more rigorous approach than the...

Want to know more about Office 12?

You can find more on Office 12 from the following links, bear in mind that most people (including me) are under NDA so we can only talk about the stuff that’s already been talked about in public.  You can find most of my posts by searching for Office 12 – these...

Office 12 and Web 2.0 in the Enterprise

During the last couple of months I have been discussing some of the business implications of Web 2.0 with Doug Neal,  you can read the result in this document – Management Messages on Web 2.0 – What you need to know about the next generation of the Internet.  The discussion got...

Keeping up to date with Groove

I find it very difficult to keep up to date with what’s going on in Groove,  I only have 3 workspaces,  but that’s three additional places to go to look for updates.  Last night I mentioned to Doug that there should be a way to subscribe to changes in Groove...

Update on OnTime

In this post I described OnTime which is a great product for activity and task management (not great for project management), it’s free for use by a single individual.  Well one of the great features appeared to be the ability to integrate it with email.  This is achieved by creating...

RSS feeds at work

I have just tested out the first RSS feeds from my companies enterprise portal,  worked fine once I had authenticated (we use forms based authentication using SiteMinder) from within the RSS reader (in this case RSS Bandit).  I usually use NewsGator but in my quick test it didn’t seem possible...

Microsoft collaboration still worries me

About 8 years ago I was a member of a group charged with selecting a new Email system, we looked at our requirements and were rapidly swayed by visions of the strategic role that Lotus Notes could play in our business unit.   Exchange and Outlook by contrast could only demonstrate...

Want to find out more about mind mapping?

This week has been mind mapping week on my blog, and this will be the last post on the subject for a while.  Chuck Frey emailed me to provide details of his Mind Mapping Resource Center which is definitely worth checking out,  it has links to articles reviewing most of...

Are you a GTD convert, looking for a great tool?

I recently came across a quite amazing offer from AxoSoft,  that allowed me to get a 5 user version of their project management software OnTime for just $5 rather than $495, even better the $5 was donated to the Red Cross!  I have been struggling to find a project/task management...

Which Mind Mapping Product Do I Use?

A quite few people have asked me which mind mapping product I use, because I have just linked previously to Mindjets web site and not been specific. Well I use MindManager X5 Pro,  which is not the latest version that Mindjet provide but it’s pretty good.  My daughter (13) has...